By Thomas Young
A Chronicle of the hot international recounts the reviews of a small team of squaddies, in general veterans of the Italian wars, who're were set ashore at the South American mainland contrary the pearl fisheries at Cubagua and Margarita, islands “discovered” by means of Cristobal Colón in 1498. they try to make touch with a bigger Spanish expeditionary strength which has preceded them inland. as soon as inland they stumble upon instant difficulties not just with terrain and climate but in addition with the indigenous inhabitants, which the passage of the sooner strength has infected opposed to them. unavoidably, too, the tough situations in their trip reason tensions to come up one of the contributors of the excursion that regularly carry tragic results.
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